Celebrating the diversity of gullibility, idiolectic usage and blather

TWW is The Warped Woodturner who is a local artist living in a suburb of Springbrook, WI (pop 87). His mission is to use a wood lathe to make interesting but mostly useless objects from locally-sequestered carbon for tourists to bring back to the city to give to people they had to buy something for but don't like that well. His target market is the senior citizens since their vision is not as good as it used to be so cannot see the defects as well.

"For
now, the
bottom line is this: large-capacity magazines do not lead to higher
casualty counts in mass shootings. It
is the desire of the perpetrator to shoot a lot of people leads to
higher casualty counts. The
choice of a large-capacity magazine may reflect that desire, but it
does not seem to facilitate its realization. Lacking large-capacity
magazines, the shooters could realize their evil intentions with
other widely available means."

"In
the end, my point concerning violence broadly and gun violence in
particular is the need for specificity over generality. Although we
need to have some definition of violence to create a horizon for our
disciplined study of the phenomenon, I do believe that fundamentally
there is no such thing as gun violence in general. There are specific
acts of violence involving guns with specific phenomenologies,
etiologies, and outcomes."

The
big gorilla in the room is time. Society can give someone permission
to get a gun (said to upset the gun people) but how do people know
some time in the future the person will not do something bad
with it. It could
be years. Be watchful for news stories saying the guy in
Colorado Springs bought all of this guns legally. If this is true
what does it mean about common sense gun regulations?

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Will Donnie the Demagogue put Hillary the Horrible into the White House if he does not get the Republican nomination and and claims victim status saying he was not treated fairly and runs as an independent?

And more 'proof' from somebody TWW has never heard of fro a few year back:

"Special Report
Chinese Radars in Syria
Sean O’Connor

As the Syrian crisis continues, new evidence is suggesting a far greater amount of Chinese military assistance to the Assad regime than previously believed. Imagery analysis reveals the presence of Type 120, JYL-1, and JY-27 (GREAT WALL) radar systems at various EW complexes in Syria. The radars are present in imagery dating as far back as 2009. Given that the current crisis in Syria developed in late 2011, the new identification of Chinese military equipment does not represent overt Chinese support of the Assad regime. While China does not support Western initiatives regarding the crisis, it is imperative to note that the 2009 or earlier delivery timeline predates the situation and is indicative only of an import-export relation between the two states."

Friday, November 13, 2015

It is sex education time for TWW. When he heard about the laws against taking pictures up women's skirts he could never make sense of them. Now the next time he sees someone carrying a plastic box in a store he will pay more attention and be sure his fly is zipped up.

"In one of the more bizarre speeches that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has delivered this campaign season, Trump went on a rant that lasted more than ten minutes on new frontrunner, retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson. Here in Fort Dodge, Iowa, he accused Carson of being a liar and once again, as he did earlier in the day on CNN, likened Carson to a child molester with a pathological disease.

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

"They thought their request for an apology ought to have been sufficient to secure one. Who taught them that it is righteous to pillory faculty for failing to validate their feelings, as if disagreement is tantamount to disrespect? Their mindset is anti-diversity, anti-pluralism, and anti-tolerance, a seeming data-point in favor of April Kelly-Woessner’s provocative argument that “young people today are less politically tolerant than their parents’ generation.” "

This is talking about the student reaction to an e-mail about Halloween costumes but sure sounds similar to the student demands in MO. The only difference is some of the students in Missouri were actually victims but what difference should reality make to the elite college students.

"Concerned Student 1950 has demanded, among other things, that Wolfe "acknowledge his white male privilege," that he be removed immediately, and that the school adopt a mandatory racial-awareness program and hire more black faculty and staff."source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/support-leaps-for-univ-of-missouri-student-activists/So what are the protesters going to do now? Holding one's breath until one turns blue does not work well for people in minority groups. Is not turning blue when some people cannot an example of white privilege?

Tuesday, November 03, 2015

Don't buy all the BS from the second amendment fanatics. Smart guns are good for the gun industry.The anti-gun Violence Policy Center said this in a background report: "Would smart guns entice individuals who otherwise wouldn’t buy a gun to bring a weaponinto their home?Making smart guns available could increase the chances of selling guns to Americans whocurrently do not own them. A March 1997 survey conducted by the National Opinion ResearchCenter found that, of respondents who were “unlikely to buy a gun in the future,” 35 percentwould “consider buying a handgun that would only fire for the owner of the gun.” Packagedwith a strong sales pitch, the technology could penetrate new markets for a gun industry that isfacing long-term declines in household and personal gun ownership, putting more families at riskfrom the well-documented hazards that accompany bringing a gun into a previously gun-freehome."And always remember more guns means less crime.Read the entire report at the bottom of this web page: http://www.vpc.org/regulating-the-gun-industry/smart-guns/

Monday, November 02, 2015

"Russia's official view appears to have changed little since 2003, when Putin told an international climate conference that warmer temperatures would mean Russians "spend less on fur coats" while "agricultural specialists say our grain production will increase, and thank God for that".

The president believes that "there is no global warming, that this is a fraud to restrain the industrial development of several countries including Russia," says Stanislav Belkovsky, a political analyst and critic of Putin. "That is why this subject is not topical for the majority of the Russian mass media and society in general." "